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It terminates at the death of the owner. I have seen the taxing authorities "roll-back" the taxes if the exemptions are used by the estate or heirs beyond the year of the owner's death.
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I agree with Mr Davis. Real estate falla under the Statute of Fraud. Agreements must be in writing.
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As long as you have consent from the executor to drive the cars, it shouldn't be a problem. However, you should be sure that insurance, inspection, and registration are current.
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1. Yes or they can sell or lease their interest to a big company who will ultimately drill or mine. 2. Pretty much yes, with certain limitations to the surface rights.
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Unless you can buy your siblings out, they can force a sale by using a partition action. This will be expensive and attorney's fees will be allocated by the judge. It would be best to cooperate with the sale and take as much money possible from the sale instead of giving it to an attorney.
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Hopefully you have a written contract. If so, contact a local attorney and sue for breach.
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I agree with Attorney Hays. First, don't do a contract for deed. In Texas, the new laws make it very difficult to execute one properly without the potential of rendering it invalid. Sell son your undivided 1/2 interest to him and retain a purchase money note an deed of trust in the event he defaults. Going through foreclosure in Texas is not difficult and you want to avoid an invalid home equity lien and you want to avoid an ineffective contract for deed. If son is willing after he "tires"...
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Renee C. Lovelace in Dripping Springs is one of the best in the state - near Austin.
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The insurance policy falls outside of probate. The beneficiary could have been changed prior to death.
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Davy Crockett is a descriptive term for the action of taking your drunken/passed out buddys face and burrying it in your exposed crotch. Once head has been burried, you must position your mule and balls on top of their head, whilst ensuring proper draping over the back of the skull. This has a striking resemblence to the coon skinned hat that Davy Crocket wore with his Scouting apparel. This is the most extreme party action that can be performed before you get to the level of insertion and/or date rape.
Victim: Awwwhruphf, I feel like shit what happened last night?
Me: Let me show you on my digital Camera!
Victim: What the F!?
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Victim: What the F!?
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Victim: Dude, you're an asshole!
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one of the smallest nuclear missiles ever built, used with a recoilless rifle. created by the US military during the cold war. it didn't have good accuracy but its high radiation made up for this.
the Davy Crockett was used in the popular video game metal gear solid 3: snake eater by a Russian colonel of the GRU called colonel Volgin.
by R Kempinski
August 28, 2007
The Davy Crockett involves taking a shot of rum and chasing it with A1 steak sauce. Side effects may include wearing coon hats, carrying muskets, and searching for the alamo while drunk in public.
The alchoholic: "We have a full handle of sailor jerry's, lets take some Davy Crocketts!"
Everyone: "Remember the alamo!"
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by blackmoongoon
July 04, 2010
Similar to the super man, but involves woman who wear wigs. When performing sex in the doggy style, as you begin to cum on her back, you quickly yank her wig off of her and use your cum to stick it to her back, then you yell out "King of the wild frontier!"
Last night I was poundin' this girl from behind, when I was about to cum I pulled back on her pony tail, and the whole damn thing came off in my hand, so I had to davy crockett her ass!
by gonb
July 02, 2012
So your loving your girl strong getting her wet and really loose, really loose (this is of the utmost importance). As things heat up head south, and instead of munching the rug slip your head into her vagina up to your forehead, like a baseball cap. the spin around so you both have your backs on the bed, table, sink, mother, you know whatever. Then stand up with your new vagina headware and ask politely for her to "drop a load" down your neck, dont work clean up is a breeze! Go look in the mirror you sould have something that looks like the great davy crocket coon skinned hat.
So I was riding this bird and my head got cold so I davy crockett'ed that shit and now I cant get this brown ring off my forehead.
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Having recovered the black boxes the full truth of what happened makes fascinating - and horrifying - reading. Especially if you ever worry about how much control we hand over to the machines.
It seems the pilots had so much belief in the idea that the Airbus A330 wouldn't let itself crash that they ignored ever more strident warnings and eventually stalled. They were so convinced by the manual's assurances that the Airbus simply wouldn't let itself stall they ignored the warnings, thinking there must be a fault with the instruments. That blind trust ultimately led to the deaths of 228 people.
And there's a danger cars are going the same way too. Take the E63 AMG test car we've just handed back for example. Though it seems utterly counter intuitive you can cruise in stop-start traffic with your feet off the pedals under radar automatic pilot that'll even bring you to a halt when the car in front stops. Brush the throttle and it'll move off again, maintaining an electronically metered distance whatever the speed. These systems have been round a while but we're breeding a generation of drivers who, eventually, might never have had to make these kind of decisions themselves. As Riggers has reported this week, a new patent marks the next step to cars that can drive themselves. But if, as in Flight 447, the computers go a bit screwy where does that leave them?
Blind trust in electronics can bite and it's actually had me off the road too, leaning against the mid-way 'show-off' ESP setting on a wet slip road. I was counting on a nice electronically enhanced - and recovered - slide. But the computers said no and off I went. Dumb, but previous experience said it'd have given me a quick half a turn of opposite lock and then tidied things up for me. When it didn't I was suddenly on my own and out of talent. I'd been lulled into a false sense of security that tricked me into thinking I could drive like that with impunity but, on my own, my skills weren't enough to recover the situation. A sobering moment indeed.
When they work these systems are incredible and mean a 500hp-plus rear-drive estate car with an aggressive limited-slip differential like the E63 is viable family transport even in the weather we've been having the last few days. A few years back that would have been considered ludicrous but now we take it for granted. And the E63 is a wonderful thing. But as Flight 447 proves it's sometimes worth trusting your instincts, as well as the black boxes.


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Oshkosh Northwestern says: Under Democrat reign in Congress, Petri oddly seems to be flourishing
Many politicians saunter into a room and bury the needle on the "Partisan Meter." They drone the party line. They carry the water for embattled leaders. They spin. They exude "partisanship." Not Tom Petri's style. Never has been. Folks in his 6th Congressional District should be thankful this Republican is both open-minded and intellectual when it comes to investigating and weighing proposed legislation in this Democrat-controlled Congress. U.S. Rep. Petri, R-Fond du Lac, has typically stayed out of the bare-knuckled fistfights in Washington. He has preferred a more professorial tone and approach in politics. That didn't win him much face time or responsibility under pit-bull Republican leadership. Congressman Tom Petri of Wisconsin served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Somalia in the 1960's.
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Editorial: Petri and 'partisan' just don't go together
Many politicians saunter into a room and bury the needle on the "Partisan Meter."
They drone the party line. They carry the water for embattled leaders. They spin. They exude "partisanship."
Not Tom Petri's style. Never has been.
Folks in his 6th Congressional District should be thankful this Republican is both open-minded and intellectual when it comes to investigating and weighing proposed legislation in this Democrat-controlled Congress.
U.S. Rep. Petri, R-Fond du Lac, has typically stayed out of the bare-knuckled fistfights in Washington. He has preferred a more professorial tone and approach in politics. That didn't win him much face time or responsibility under pit-bull Republican leadership.
But now, under Democrat reign in Congress, Petri oddly seems to be flourishing.
No party bosses to stifle him.
He swung through the district last week, talking about everything from college affordability to fish viruses.
It is clear he is emerging as a leading voice in the college loan reform debate � a topic he has urged Congress address years before state attorneys general began targeting the industry to correct wrongs and reap publicity.
Petri continues pushing his STAR Act and other loan reforms, one rewarding colleges and universities with increased Pell Grant funds if their students chose government-sponsored loans that curtail taxpayer waste.
It's an $87 billion � "with a 'B'" � industry, Petri emphasizes. "It's practically $1,000 for every baby born in America," he told the Northwestern's editorial board with a grin, not an angry fist-pound.
Thanks to the work of Petri, this nonpartisan subject and beneficial legislation is poised to actually see action. Good.
Another big nonpartisan score for Petri: Immigration.
He acknowledges it's "a complicated issue" but doesn't shirk the questions nor get addicted to the emotion and vitriol driving the debate in America. Don't know if you caught it, but Petri said last week that he thought a legal, guest-worker program � something akin to what Wisconsin farmers long benefited from � "makes sense."
On the war, Petri is just as balanced. He supported the giant bill to support troop supplies and operations but stands by his vote with Democrats expressing no-confidence in the president's 20,000 troop-surge plan.
A year or two ago, Petri would have been bashed for his stance.
Now he even questions the timeline supposedly measuring surge's effectiveness. "I don't know when the six months start and when the six months are over," he frankly said, further questioning whether Iraqis have a country to take control of. "� Is there really an Iraqi nation that Iraqis swear allegiance to?"
He even speaks fairly of his technical adversary � Democrat Speaker of the House, U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
"She's obviously very partisan and a partisan leader, but we've always had a cordial relationship," Petri said of Pelosi.
He thought the photo opportunity he and his daughter had with the House speaker after she historically took her post as first woman speaker was pretty neat.
Keep pumping fresh air into the Capitol, Rep. Petri.
Final Thought: U.S. Rep. Tom Petri's fair-minded, intellectual approach to leadership is just what Washington needs, whether Democrats or Republicans are in control.
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- 1 cup soy sauce
- 1 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tablespoons Rib Rub, recipe follows
- BBQ Sauce, recipe follows
- Rib Rub:
- 3 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons cayenne powder
- 2 tablespoons garlic powder
- 2 tablespoons onion powder
- 2 tablespoons white pepper
- 2 tablespoons kosher salt
- 1 tablespoon dry mustard, such as Coleman's
- 1 tablespoon course black pepper
- 5 teaspoons seafood seasoning, such as Old Bay
- 1 teaspoon ginger powder
- BBQ Sauce:
- 3 cups ketchup
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup rice wine vinegar
- 1/2 cup stone ground mustard
- 1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tablespoons cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon sea salt
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To prepare the ribs, remove the silver skin from the back or under rib side. Mix the soy and Worcestershire sauces together. Then on a baking sheet or pan, mop on the basting liquid and sprinkle with the Rib Rub. After basting and seasoning, place the ribs on the rack of the smoker and cook for 1 hour. Mop or baste twice during cooking.
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Rib Rub:With a wooden spoon, blend the brown sugar, cayenne, garlic powder, onion powder, white pepper, salt, dry mustard, black pepper, seafood seasoning and ginger powder until mixed. Then bag until usage. Yield: 1 quart.
BBQ Sauce:In a bowl, whisk together the ketchup, sugar, vinegar, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, cayenne and salt in a saucepan over low heat. Cook for 5 to 6 minutes to blend flavors. Remove from the heat and hold until using. Yield: 1/3 gallon.
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Simplified test developed for identifying fake whiskey
By Ben Coxworth
July 27, 2011
So, is that really Johnnie Walker Blue that you're drinking, or is it perhaps actually Johnny Woker Bloo? Counterfeit Scotch whiskeys are more common than you might think, with the Scotch Whiskey Association reportedly handling between 60 to 70 active cases of counterfeiting at any one time. While there are lab tests that can identify the fakes, not every bar owner or restaurateur has the time or funds for those. Fortunately for them, scientists from Glasgow's University of Strathclyde have devised a quicker, simpler, less costly system.
The technique involves measuring the mid-infrared light spectrum of the whiskeys, which is done using immersion probes containing special optical fibers. This indicates the amount of ethanol and colorant in the liquor - if those amounts don't match up with the amounts that the genuine whiskey is known to have, then the sampled whiskey is a fake.
In testing the technology, the Strathclyde team analyzed 17 samples of blended whiskey. They were able to successfully identify the eight authentic whiskeys, and the nine counterfeits.
"There's a growing need for methods that can provide simpler and faster identification and we have developed a system which could be adapted for devices to use on site, without the need to return samples to a lab," said project leader Prof. David Littlejohn. "It could be of great benefit to an industry which is hugely important to the economy."
The research has been published in the journal Analytica Chimica Acta.
OMG, 9/17 whiskey bottles are counterfeit??
onsite devices for consumers to find out exactly which bottle is actual whiskey is a very good idea.
when can we acquire these devices?
Waiel Jibrail27th July, 2011 @ 03:01 pm PDT
9/17 of the test group. . .
This is quite cool - not sure if I need it, as a consumer, but would be great for bars or retailers. . .
socalboomer27th July, 2011 @ 03:34 pm PDT
A shot glass would be an excellent plan B for testing.
RAMLOT27th July, 2011 @ 05:12 pm PDT
So what, you are going to open all of your delivered bottles to check for fake hooch, what a pain, they need to tighten up the retailers/wholesalers that are switching out the real for fake liquor
Darrin Goodman28th July, 2011 @ 08:34 am PDT
Is it in any way odd that this test, according to the article heading, appears to be for verifying the authenticity of Irish Whiskey, but all of the bottles shown in the picture seem to be Scotch whisky.
Whisky - Scotch.
Whiskey - Irish.
A'Tuin28th July, 2011 @ 10:44 am PDT
I'm relieved to see the testing isn't being performed by Rab C Nesbitt! :)
Gerard Gallagher28th July, 2011 @ 01:41 pm PDT
In my country (Turkey) every month at least ten or more people died cause of drinking fake whiskeys. This development can save a lot of people lifes.
Ahmet Dizioglu28th July, 2011 @ 05:47 pm PDT
When referring to Scotch, it is spelled "whisky" (there is no 'e' in Scotch whisky)
Jeff Sell28th July, 2011 @ 05:50 pm PDT
I had fake chivas and had hangover and memory loss for over a month
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The dictionary commonly known as "Webster's Third" — its full title is "Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language" — was published in 1961 after years of assiduous preparation and immediately ran into a storm of controversy that its editors could not have anticipated. David Skinner, who edits Humanities, the magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, argues that the damage was largely self-inflicted.
Its publisher, the firm G. & C. Merriam, issued a cutsy-pie news release citing the various new words the editors had decided to include, among them "A-Bomb," "beatnik" and "satellite"; the various contemporary celebrities (Betty Grable, Mickey Spillane, Dwight Eisenhower) whose utterances or writings had been quoted as usage examples; and "the new dictionary's surprisingly tolerant, though oddly worded, entry for 'ain't,' which said 'ain't' was 'used orally in most parts of the U.S. by cultivated speakers.' "


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The Economist, likes so many conservatives, needs to understand that less government means more corruption at the state and local levels. Republicans would have had greater losses if not for gerrymandering and fraud. Think of this, in Wisconsin, Obama and Baldwin won, and Walker??? Walker is the total opposite of Baldwin. Russ Feingold isn't as liberal as Tammy Baldwin.
Dream on buddy. Corruption!? It is voting machines made by Rmoney's friends that commit fraud on a massive basis.
First, TE bears no resemblence to US Conservatives - just your dislike and ideological labelling of anything you don't agree with ?
Big government leads to fraud and waste - it's harder to hide in a small group with tight budgets.
But yes there is huge corruption in the US govt system - all those additions to bills for local works, as the phrase always goes "follow the money". The system in the US stinks on this test.
And yes you have blatent gerrymandering - but this is done by both sides whenever they have the control - it's your laws being used by your lawmakers - stupid - truly, but not fraudulent.
Your empty accusations are without substance or merit. Clearly, you have never lived in a company town nor understand the conditions under which slavery existed or Jim Crow or ghettos or lynchings? Don't let the facts smack you upside your big fat head.
I think you may have misunderstood or I didn't say it clearly. How does blue state elected Baldwin and Obama while simultaneously electing Prosser and Walker - right wing douche bags.
Another issue dovetails with demographic changes for Republicans. I work in IT and not a single one of my colleagues, especially those under the age of 50, votes GOP. Friends in consulting say the same thing. The GOP, as the anti-intellectual, social neanderthal party, turns off such people.
I know a few people in our industry (mostly those with libertarian leanings) who vote GOP occasionally. But the vast majority, as you say, do not.
However, I wonder how much of that is the anti-intellectual feature of the GOP. Vs. how much is that fact that, for someone in an industry where things change constantly, a party which focuses on not changing at all, and refusing to recognize that the world is changing, just doesn't resonate.
I work in a high-tech manufacturing plant in the middle of a rural county in Ohio. Practically everyone here votes Republican, including lots of smart people with one or more degrees. There's plenty of intelligent reasons to dislike the Democratic party, and plenty of intelligent Republicans. The know-nothing wing of the party gets all the press, and has had too large of an effect on the nominating process.
Sometimes I hear Democrats talking as though all Democrats have degrees, sip Pinot Grigio and discuss the Economist in their weekly salon. Lets not forget that a sizeable part of the Democratic coalition is made up of people who have trouble providing ID to vote, who live entirely off of the largesse of taxpayers, or who vote against Republicans because they believe one of the many ludicrous conspiracy theories about big business. Republicans are putting money behind some truly stupid ideas. The Democrats have no ideas, only opposition to Republicans. Things could change quickly if the Republicans pick better people to put their money behind.
The funny thing about the what happened is that, Romney spent a significant amount of money but his staff could not pick up that for Republicans to enter the White House again, they need a diverse ticket. America is now much too diverse for the same old "good old boys" at the top of the executive branch. I have a feeling if he had Rubio or believe it or not, Bobby Jindal, as his running mate, there could have been a different outcome.
Certainly, not all Republicans are dumb. I work with a number of MDs who are super smart and are Republican. Just out of curiousity, what is the breakdown of people where you work between those under 50 and those older? Those under 50 are more likely to vote Democrat?
The men are all Republicans. Young women tend to be Democrats until they a) get a real job and/or b) get a kid and a mortgage. It's rare to see someone who pays significant income taxes and supports the Democrats in suburban to rural Ohio. It's not that people want some kind of libertarian utopia with no government. The general feeling is that government passed the 'too big/intrusive' mark about a generation ago, we'd like to see it pared back to that level, and we'd like it controlled by a state legislature more in tune with our needs and wants than the Feds in D.C.
I run a small business on the side so I can empathize with the desire for less regulation. With me and many of those I encounter daily it is much more a voting against what the GOP has become than what the Democrats represent. Denying global warming and evolution, promoting things like intelligent design, being against abortion while at the same time rejecting any sort of sex education except abstinence. I could go on but, it is largely a revulsion against social conservatives. In addition, GW Bush's two wars on credit cards and massive debts didn't much for those of us who actually might be attracted by a small government philosophy.
@Ohio - teabaggers like you is why the GOP has been screwed. Leave the GOP and go form your own stinking party. Let see you support immigration amnesty like Reagan did.... no way jose.... well you just screwed the GOP.
I'm a little confused about your closing statements. Is it the ideas or the candidates that are the problem with the Republican party? Both? You say the Democrats have no ideas, only opposition to Republicans, but I would say the opposite is true.
President Obama and the Democrats have laid out their philosophy and their ideas, which seem more relevant and practical than the same old tired Republican theories and 'ideas.' All that we heard from the R/R campaign was 'cut taxes' and 'deregulate.' There is nothing new there since the 80's. That's 3 decades!! Unions are almost nonexistent and still are blamed for practically any economic issue.
Republicans did not scream about deficits for the entire Bush administration while the debt climbed and climbed. Then, in the midst of economic crisis, the Republicans chose to focus on the debt? That is simply nothing even close to conservative fiscal policy.
Put the tax controversy in perspective - the tax rates are at historic lows and the top bracket is set at historic lows. The Republicans offer no sane rationale for the obstinate position on taxes. According to the rhetoric, we're approaching INSANE tax rates! They quote the 'highest corporate tax rates' but don't mention that by the time loopholes are used, the effective tax rate is very low and many of our largest corporations pay -0- taxes. The percentage of total revenues coming from corporate taxation is smaller than ever.
No one struggling on the stagnant wages we've seen since the 80's (coincidentally with union decline)believes the problem in this country is that the working class aren't paying enough taxes. It's just really bad economics.
Republicans have put their heads in the sand also on the demand side of the economic equation. I could rant on about this, but in the end, the party has not been very convincing to a big part of the population that if we just cut taxes (like Bush did already) and deregulate (which Reagan, Clinton, and Bush did already - part of which helped crash the economy, not grow it) we will get different, better results.
Surely you can see some correlation here. All those policies did was create such a vast gap, such huge inequalities, that not only is our economy shaky, but the stability of the society begins to weaken. Look back to the 60's and 70-90% tax rates, when middle class families only needed one income to buy a house, a car, raise kids, had secure retirements and were doing well. Tell me again that the taxes are the problem?
"I work in a high-tech manufacturing plant in the middle of a rural county in Ohio."
I have a feeling that I might have visited your workplace in December 2008, for a factory witness testing...
Ohio results: President Obama, Senate Democrat, House Republican. Doesn't really support your demographics, does it ?
Just spoken to a female colleague from Ohio, and along with the anti-intellectual bias is, I believe, the so-called "war on women". She's a moderately fiscal conservative (in her early 30's so worried about the huge boomer entitlement bill she's on the hook for), but she said that she's practically forced to vote Democrat because the Republicans take such an extreme view on issues like abortion and contraception. I wonder how many other moderate women recoil from their natural party because of such short-sighted religiously-inspired misogyny ?
Republicans, TEA Partites, fundamentalists, Creationists, and the like are really good at denial, and at always pointing the finger of blame elsewhere and not looking in the mirror of truth.
I work in engineering and it is the same. I knew more people who voted for Gary Johnson than Romney in my firm of 30 people, with only two Romney supporters both of whom are older white Christian women who are ardently pro-life; even then, they did it with a badd taste in their mouths.
I work with a lot of people who live out in Silicon Valley and they mock the GOP incessantly.
I live in San Francisco and you really have to look hard to find a Republican although I suspect all those Big Silicon Valley CEOs like John Chambers and co. are Republicans.
I know a few of the Silicon Valley VC gang and they are surprisingly democrats! One has even signed up to Bill and Warren's giving pledge - I think that's better than Mr Adelson's punt on Romney. I bet Sheldon's odds-makers weren't following Nate Silver or else they would have warned the boss about his "silly" bet.
The GOP might also think twice before deliberately alienating its most energetic voters, supporters, grassroots workers, precinct captains, activists, and delegates with dirty tricks, including physical thuggery, as it practiced so routinely, blatently, and shamelessly in the primaries and caucuses. If it did, perhaps another, better, more-electable candidate might emerge than the lame ones (Romney, McCain) put forth by the establishment, Rockefeller, military-interventionist, and social-conservative wings. The Economist cites a need for more tolerant and thoughtful voices in the GOP. It should naturally be encouraging the libertarian / Ron Paul wings of the party, which plainly are more closely attuned to the changing picture of America than the old guard, which seem to want to pretend America is not evolving. (The Economist didn't even mention the insane war on drugs here.) Almost every survey shows demands for more fiscal restraint and more social tolerance. The GOP is doomed unless and until it decides to improve on both fronts.
Sorry; it's "blatantly," not "blatently" of course.
If Huntsman had been the nominee, I would have given him serious consideration
The lesson for the GOP should not be that Romney wasn't conservative enough. If anything, he managed to keep the election close. Had Obama faced Santorum, Gingrich, Bachman or any other extremely conservative selection from the primary field then the election would have been a landslide victory for Obama.
In a vacuum I could have and perhaps would have voted for Romney. Along with the rest of the GOP that became impossible.
Agreed. I feel the same way.
Same here. Romney was the best of a weak field.
If the GOP supported amnesty like Reagan had done, they get the entire hispanic latino block. If they didn't complain about the 47% because of the earned income credit that Reagan put int the tax code, they'd win the election. But no the tea baggers took over, and the GOP must hate women, minorities, and poor people. Well only logical response is the collective FU by voting for Obama.
The issue I believe you are facing in the US is the same as in many other countries
Grass roots party hacks pick the candidates, your primary system at least weeds out some of the truly aweful alternatives, but if they are all week then the result is poor. But the voters in most candidate selection processes are much more extreme than the regular voter set, so you end up with nutters who could not find a centre ground to appeal to normal voters if they wanted to, look at some of the house members,
The same is seen in the UK with MPs selected in back rooms from party faithful (many/most of whom have never worked in the private sector, even amongst the right wingers) resulting in candidates divorsed from the realities of work and life
Yep, in fact I think the more Liberal Romney of the first Debate could've one the election.
Even in a vacuum, Romney exhibited no grasp on foreign policy. The major job of the U.S. President is handling foreign policy. Romney was an abject failure in all things foreign policy-based (trip abroad, handling of Benghazi, FP debate, Russia as biggest geopolitical threat). He was woefully inadequate at his major job qualification: understanding the world around him.
Where were you during the election?! Now that it's undeniable the GOP lost the presidency because they are literally ridiculous, the Economist suddenly has the bravery to confront the GOP's distaste for reality? Why now, and not when it was relevant, for the last 2 years? Waiting for the cards to hit the table, before stating the obvious? Just like when the fantasy of the George W Bush presidency was finally falling from the ivory pedestal of neocon pseudo-theory, you've jumped on board the common sense train, a dollar short and a day late.
You have to keep in mind that a mere 400 000 votes could have completely changed this election by giving Romney enough electoral college votes.
This article would have looked ridiculous if the outcome turned out differently.
Looks like someone still stuck on the platform.
Your math is way off, there. Even if Romney had two percentage points more in the popular vote than Obama, Obama would STILL have likely won the electoral college.
As it is, Obama instead won 2.5% more of the popular vote than Romney.
Obama would have needed to lose Florida, Colorado, Virginia and Ohio to lose this election.
He only needed one and he won all four.
I would've hoped that this election, at the very least, would have taught Republicans the importance of math.
BRAVO!!! Beautifully said. I hope the writers of the Economist take note. So many of its readers have taken notice of this!
BRAVO!!! Beautifully said. I hope the writers of the Economist take note. So many of its readers have taken notice of this!
Despite all evidence they think the Earth is only 5,000 years old [mathematically and scientifically absurd] and you think they they will suddenly pay attention to math?
I completely agree. The Economist changed significantly. The old Economist would have pointed out long time ago that the GOP is now the party of high spending (on Israel firster wars, offensive wars and military spending, on bailing out Wall Street, big government projects for their supporters, tax breaks to promote senseless spending, the party of Greenspan and Bernanke, etc) and religious freaks.
I am not a Democrat and don't support their economic policies but the GOP is not even American anymore. It is the party of Sheldon Adelson.
"Why now, and not when it was relevant, for the last 2 years? Waiting for the cards to hit the table, before stating the obvious? "
Precisely because now is just about the only time when even the die-hard Republican will have enough evidence around them to make it hard (but not impossible) to remain in denial.
"Why now, and not when it was relevant, for the last 2 years?"
It is only in hindsight that such a commentary can be delivered, or at most in the past month, when it was clear that the President would win. If such an article had been written by Lexington a year and a half ago and if Mr.Romney would have won the election(and there was a distinct possibility of this at that time), it would have shown that Americans are still receptive to Republican dogma and the article would have been conclusively proven wrong.
The GOP will need to become more libertarian on social issues if they wish to take back the oval office. On many social issues (gay marriage and woman's health in particular) the GOP looks antiquated is not keeping up with the shift in American public opinion. Of course, the Tea Party will try to make life difficult for centrist GOP candidates in the primaries, which is silly since they are the only ones who stand a chance at winning the general.
Seems that the problem is that the Tea Party and other purists are not particularly interested in what is pragmatic and therefore what will win. There are a number of variations on the quote, but in general it reads that politics is the art of compromise. Much of the GOP seems to have completely lost sight of that.
Although the groups are not mutually exclusive, the Tea Party (largely) hails from the small government, fiscally conservative wing of the Republican party rather its social conservative wing.
My recollection is that there were two versions of the Tea Party. Version 1.0 in the 2010 election run-up was small government, fiscally conservative, and explicitly took no position on social issues. I would argue it was a net win for the Republicans.
Version 2.0 started when Michelle Bachmann anointed herself Tea Party spokesperson, and brought in her full social agenda. Local "leadership" also began to take an evangelical turn in many places. It alienated moderates in droves.
The brand is permanently sullied. Let it die, and may the new small government, fiscally conservative wing prosper.
It's a leaderless, amorphous movement - not unlike the Occupy movement. Certain politicians have courted the favor of Tea Party sympathizers and certain groups have tried to claim the mantle of leadership but they are all self- or media-appointed and not widely recognized as such within the movement.
I agree that the brand has been sullied, if largely unfairly, but it still enjoys more popular favor than, for example, labor unions or the Occupy movement. And the activists are a source of energy and can act as a counter weight within the Republican Party to the big-business and social conservative wings. I think it might still be able to attract independents who are concerned about the government's parlous finances and wish to see the problem solved more through spending cuts than tax hikes.
As long as they say "no tax hikes, ever, no matter what", they'll never be truly fiscally conservative, however-- it's impossible to pay off teh debt with our current level of revenue, nevermind with massive levels of tax cuts that the Tea Party is pushing for.
Keep believing that.
Keep losing.
A tea party that came out in favor of massive cuts and slightly increased taxes might be taken seriously, but not before.
The other thing when you make the comparison to Occupy, Occupy has no "Occupy caucus" in Congress. The tea party does. Democrats don't elect their crazies, Republicans do and it's killing you. Not believing in evolution is just idiotic and a lot of the electorate can recognize willful idiocy when they see it.
It didn't. the MSM, which was anxions to discredit the Tea Party Movement, played up that aspect of it over the fiscal conservative side. It was all in the spin.
Exactly! Finally, a poster who is informed!
I want you to run for office!
I am a religious agnostic, but it does not strike me as extremist to think marriage should be limited to a man and a woman, as per thousands of years of human history. I could live with a civic union - it is all a matter of terminology. And it does not strike me as crazy to oppose mandating that an employer pay for the birth control of a female employee. One's healthcare policy shouldn't be determined by his or her employer, and there should be a deductoible such that small expenses like this are not paid for by the insurance company, so as to keep costs down.
I'm not arguing that being opposed to gay marriage is extremest, I am arguing that American public opinion is/has shifting in favor of gay marriage (it tipped past 50% around 2010). It is difficult to win a general election if your policies are not supported by the majority of Americans.
Additionally, regarding healthcare expenses, it is much more economical to pay for birth control rather than pay the EITC and other subsidies/externalities caused by unwanted pregnancy.
You say "I could live with a civic union - it is all a matter of terminology."
How nice of you, Your Highness, to grant such leniency onto others from up on high. I'm sure they will appreciate your limited generosity.
It may not seem extreme to you, but when you limit someone else's rights against their will, it is extreme to them. And in their eyes, and mine, it makes you extremist.
The question is on of rights and who are we to tell someone they can they can't marry the person they love like you and I can. It is a matter of equal rights that supposedly, the Declaration guarantees.
Religious conservatives have been using the Bible since the founding of our country to get around that. The south kept slavery claiming it was in the bible (and it is). They said woman shouldn't be allowed to vote because woman was made from Adam's rib and inferior.
Like segregation today, 50 years from now people will ask "did they really fight against equal rights for gays?"
And for all the talk about how ending don't ask don't tell would destroy the military, it has been a year and we haven't heard anything from all the conservative doomsayers.
The conservative right has really caused problems throughout the history of our country and, afterwards, nobody would defend what they fought for.
I think GOP is cornered at this point and this election showed it pretty well. The grassroot base of the party is extremely socially conservative and was ready to nominate Santorum, had Romney not shifted very far to the right. They have to appease this base because they are their biggest voting block. The party as a whole cannot just pivot to the center because there is always going to be another Santorum that tea-party will end up nominating. At the same time, these guys are not the majority of electorate anymore so Republicans have to pick up votes from other groups to whom the ideas of GOP base seem insane. Next election cycle is going to be even worse for the party.
Maybe. Angry populist movements in the 1930s and 1890s faded fairly quickly when economic conditions improved. The Tea Party will not last forever, and in four years they might be an afterthought. If nothing else, Tea Partiers are dying off a lot faster than they are procreating. But timing is always hard to predict. 4 years is a long time in politics. 4 years ago people were talking about a permanent Democratic majority in congress.
The point about them dying off is a good one. I thought about it soon after I posted this. By virtue of being mostly old and white, they are not likely to survive as a sizable voting block for a long time.
I am a Republican who voted for Democrats to punish the Republican party for glorifying stupidity, and flunking math and science. I will do so again if necessary, but I fully intend to vote Republican again, as the only politicians I respect in this country are Republican. 21st century government must be streamlined, efficient, and directed at providing a minimal safety net for citizens, a sturdy infrastructure for commerce, and no more. I do not know how long I will have to wait for the Republicans to come around, but amongst all of the voices of Republican stupidity, I hear some good ideas from amongst the younger Republicans, particularly in state government. I've yet to hear any from the Democratic party.
It's lonely out here. I'm waiting for the call to come home.
Funny I did the same thing. I really hope the party takes a long walk over the next four years and gets its act together. Kicking out the crazies would be a start.
I think that if a strong leader moves the Republican party just a little, the Tea Party will self-deport itself. The Republicans adopted the Tea Party when they were down in 2009 and the Tea Party looked like a way to win. Now that the Tea Party looks like a way to lose, I don't think they'll be tolerated for long. Republicans are nothing if not ruthless.
In other words, you want a 21st century government to look more like a 19th century government. Yup, you're a Republican, all right.
Enjoy the wait.
I did the same hoping to send a message to the Republicans. It is time to join the present USA--not the one from the Reagan years. I will vote for a fiscally responsiblity. Clinton was the last to get it done--this time there were no real options. I am betting the Republicans can get there first with some pressure applied via their loss.
The original Tea Party organized against the Bank Bailouts was a real moment of hope. Pity they got hijacked.
ET... Phone home......
Honestly Ohio, your views seem to be fairly resonant with the Democratic Party, or at least with those of POTUS, though to be fair, Obama's e economic and foreign policies track best with what used to be considered moderate republican views. Personal disclaimer: white, middle aged, Obama supporter who also likes Olympia Snow and Alan Simpson
Honestly Ohio, your views seem to be fairly resonant with the Democratic Party, or at least with those of POTUS, though to be fair, Obama's e economic and foreign policies track best with what used to be considered moderate republican views. Personal disclaimer: white, middle aged, Obama supporter who also likes Olympia Snow and Alan Simpson
Honestly Ohio, your views seem to be fairly resonant with the Democratic Party, or at least with those of POTUS, though to be fair, Obama's e economic and foreign policies track best with what used to be considered moderate republican views. Personal disclaimer: white, middle aged, Obama supporter who also likes Olympia Snow and Alan Simpson
I voted for Romney but don't disagree with you. However, many here and elsewhere associate the Tea Party with social conservatism. In fact, it simply wants limited government, as you have expressed.
Don't wait, act! Try to organize an alternative, secular [pro Constitution and separation of church and state] Republican party where you live. A grassroots movement of concerned Republicans is the only way to retake the GOP from its abductors. The new party, with lunatics banned, will be a bit smaller at first, but will pick up quickly when people find out its sane again.
Lets see what good tea party Romney supporters are worried about.
(I remember you like to cite opposition minded people doing interviews at rallies)
It's clear that they only care about the debt.
This is what the GOP looks like. Either deal with some of the crazy people in the video or keep losing.
Amazingly well said. Me, too.
I am a bleeding heart liberal. I want the same things you want. Anyone with intelligence and common sense wants these things.
Better than just a minimal safety net, end poverty and get all those people working and paying taxes and I won't have to pay for welfare. It also reduces social problems like drugs, teenage pregnancies, divorce.
We liberals tried to end poverty and failed. Republicans go at it. But trickle down hasn't worked any better than welfare.
At what point have the GOP practiced anything like what you defined as the ideal role of government? Regan, Bush and Bush all expanded the state. Clinton was the only modernizer, and the only one to balance a budget. People need to cut the association of the GOP with fiscal responsibility and simply demand good management from both parties.
For my life I can't actually see what the GOP was offering America in this election, besides barrels full of ignorance, anger and hatred. There were some very intelligent, reasonable and competent candidates in the primaries (e.g. Hunt), all but forgotten now. This party can give the appearance of a sturdy old oak tree, but a quick touch shows it's full of termites.
Anything that can't continue, won't. The Republican party will change with the times. I suspect that the Republican party will trend in a libertarian direction - advocating for a smaller government role in both the economic [lower transfer payments, lower tax, freer trade, lighter regulation] and personal spheres [religion, bedroom, (soft) drug use]. The Tea Party is largely a revolt by the party's small government fiscal conservatives against the pork-barreling country club/big business conservatives. The influence of social conservatives is in decline even within the party even as it is within the country.
It seems to me Romney was the poster boy for pork-barreling country club/big business conservatives. The tea party doesn't seem to get that. They weren't crazy about him in the primaries, but that was because of the 'moderate' label and they certainly embraced him in the general. The tea party now seems a bunch of rebels without a cause or core. They 'talk' of Constitution and Founding Fathers, but don't seem to truly understand the principles and certainly didn't represent them well with the whole fabricated 'voter fraud' and 'poll watching' antics.
The Republican party actively pursued Evangelical Christians in the early 90's because the social issues/emotional hot buttons were the only way they could convince so many people to vote against their economic self-interests. Many of these may be among those calling their affiliation 'Tea Party.'
I do not think the Republican party can change sufficiently with the times and retain any identity. From top to bottom, they seem to have lost touch with reality. From their perspective, both Clinton and especially President Obama are 'radical' liberals while the rest of the country sees them as center to center-right. Yes, we do have the Healthcare Act under Obama's administration, but that's hardly turning us into a 'Socialist' nation. Much of the stimulus package was tax breaks and incentives for small business.
I agree with the author. The Republicans have a slightly uncomfortable inkling that something is wrong, but they did not get hit hard enough with the cold realities to look very deeply. Their soul searching, like their policies and rhetoric is very shallow.
"It seems to me Romney was the poster boy for pork-barreling country club/big business conservatives."
I don't know, Mr. Obama hit the links over 100 times during his first term and carried 8 of the 10 wealthiest counties in the election. I'd say the President has the better claim.
"The tea party now seems a bunch of rebels without a cause or core."
Their core is restraining government spending and opposition to the President's health care reform bill.
"They 'talk' of Constitution and Founding Fathers, but don't seem to truly understand the principles and certainly didn't represent them well with the whole fabricated 'voter fraud' and 'poll watching' antics."
The Tea Party movement hasn't championed the issue of addressing voter fraud. And anyway, Democrats certainly had their poll watchers and lawyers at the ready this week.
"Many of these may be among those calling their affiliation 'Tea Party.'"
Yes, the Republican party - like the Democratic party - is a big tent. It includes both fiscal and social conservatives and these groups are not mutually exclusive. But the Tea Party movement was fired by opposition to the stimulus and the health bill - not social or immigration issues.
"I do not think the Republican party can change sufficiently with the times and retain any identity."
Perhaps. I'm a non-religious, pro-science, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, anti-death penalty, pro-immigration ...and a Republican and Tea Party sympathizer. The R party is not monolithic and it is not static. It is evolving with country - just not as fast as it needs to be politically competitive. Enough years in the political wilderness will concentrate minds and lead to a change.
Your comparison between Clinton and Obama is illuminating. Clinton tacked right and worked effectively with Congressional Republicans after he failed to pass his health reform bill and his party got creamed in the polls. Obama passed his health reform bill by the narrowest of margins and his party got creamed in the (2010) polls - but he didn't tack right. He's managed to cling to power himself by the narrowest of margins and his health bill is still unpopular but he shows not sign of tacking to the center. We'll see if he can pull a Clinton and work with Republicans to get something accomplished. His record so far does not look promising.
The situation looks entirely different from the left. It was you who said the tea party was 'against the pork-barreling country club/big business conservative' and yet that is exactly the type of nominee they chose. Since President Obama wasn't their candidate, he's not relevant to my point. However, playing golf and carrying wealthy counties certainly doesn't give him the 'better claim' to the description. Romney's claim to fame was his 'Big Business' background, after growing up in those wealthy neighborhoods with a dad who was a Big Business CEO. Seriously, which would you picture being in the country club set? Ha.
The tea party no longer has a core. They may have begun in revolt due to the healthcare bill (mainly because they believed the false information that was spread by the opposition), but their chosen ones were defeated quite badly. They didn't begin with the socialist agenda, but the Bachmann's of the party took over the agenda and the abortion issue became at least as important to them as the budget.
Maybe you can enlighten me regarding how the party has evolved, because it seems to me to have the same positions, policies and composition the past 3 decades at least.
I am always amused by members of the party who like to lecture others about personal responsibility and accountability and have been quite open about their agenda of obstruction continue to blame President Obama for not working with them. President Obama went too far to the right trying to work deals with the Republicans who had sworn not to work with him. The health bill will become much more popular once people see how it will change the system for the better. Surveys show that people like it when they are asked specific questions about some of the measures in the bill. The propaganda machine had simply made the idea unpopular by lying about what it was.
What the Republican party will do now will most likely be equivalent to re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Their basic principles are archaic and probably weren't even relevant in the industrial age. With the embrace of the Evangelicals (their first move to shore up their party electorally without changing their economic politics), they're becoming less relevant in social policy as well. It won't be enough to distance the party from the Evangelical radicals, they are moving positions on immigration hoping to get Latino votes, but that won't be enough either.
As taxes are at historic lows, and all the economic gains for three decades have gone to what R's refer to as the 'job creators' and the jobs they created were moved off-shore, job security is nonexistent, yada yada - people aren't as willing to buy the Republican spin. Well over half the country favors measures in the Health Care law, well over half the country favors increasing taxes on the wealthy. Well over half the country realizes climate change is real, and are sick of wars and think the defense budget should be cut. The R party not only has a long way to go, they have a long way to go on every single issue.
"It was you who said the tea party was 'against the pork-barreling country club/big business conservative' and yet that is exactly the type of nominee they chose."
I'll grant you that Romney looks the part and that what you say is consistent with the narrative that the Obama campaign machine has spun about him. But Romney's business background and appointment of Paul Ryan as his veep held some appeal for fiscal conservatives.
"However, playing golf and carrying wealthy counties certainly doesn't give him the 'better claim' to the description."
A matter of opinion. I think Obama fits the stereotype as well if not better than Romney. Obama's stimulus program was larded with pork for his pet industrial policy projects, after all. And while not as rich as Romney, Mr. Obama is still rich by any objective standard. He's obviously at home on the golf course and enjoys lavish parties with posh friends - part of his political constituency, we've established.
"Maybe you can enlighten me regarding how the party has evolved, because it seems to me to have the same positions, policies and composition the past 3 decades at least."
I'd say its evident in the Tea Party movement and the rising influence of fiscal conservatives relative to social conservatives in the party. An increasing share of the next generation of leaders in the party (e.g., Ryan, Cantor, Christie, Walker) are fiscal conservatives. I think its also evident in the significant and rising proportion of Republicans who support issues like gay marriage, drug legalization, abortion rights, etc. A lot of Republicans might not pull the lever for a Democrat but nonetheless support these issues through the initiative process. I offer myself as an example and I'm hardly alone.
"President Obama went too far to the right trying to work deals with the Republicans who had sworn not to work with him."
On the contrary, all of the real negotiations on his stimulus and health bills took place within his own party. He offered to let the Republicans tweak his health plan in return for some votes but made it clear that fundamental changes were not up for discussion. "Elections have consequences," he lectured. In the end, the only thing bipartisan about his health plan was the opposition.
"The health bill will become much more popular once people see how it will change the system for the better.:
Pelosi said they'd like it when they could see the details. Then we were told said they'd like it when the benefits started in 2012. Now it's 2014. The date keeps getting pushed back.
"Surveys show that people like it when they are asked specific questions about some of the measures in the bill."
Sure, it's possible to cherry pick measures that, especially when considered apart from their costs, will win popular favor. But most people seem to grasp that there's quite a bit more to the bill than those bits.
"What the Republican party will do now will most likely be equivalent to re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic."
It's not changing fast enough but that could change. Election losses focus the mind. Meanwhile, blue states like California and Illinois are offering an object lesson in the limitations of the Democratic economic model and markets are increasingly disciplining sovereign debtors. The bills to the unfunded liabilities that comprise our social insurance systems are coming due. Something's going to give and the Dems are running out of other people's money.
The first part of this is oddly irrelevant. It was your statement that seems entirely without merit and has nothing to do with President Obama,as I noted earlier. It's not 'the narrative' it is the reality.
So, essentially, the 'evolution' of the Republican party is to double down on the fiscal conservative position, but really mean it this time. $2trillion more for defense. Tax cuts when we're at historic lows and have a high debt and deficit. That just sounds like more of the same to me. You've given no indication of anything different in the plans.Gingrich was threatening to shut down the government in the 90's in the same kind of standoff. Clinton called his bluff. In that regard, I'd love to see what happens within the Republican base of seniors once Cantor and Ryan try to blame everything on Medicare and Social Security and insist that these most popular programs need to be 'reformed' which (in their dreams) means take it away a little at a time if that's how it has to be. Do any younger people realize what that means for them? Good luck with that. Those bills 'are coming due?' In like 25 years? But this is the urgent focus of Republicans? And no one sees any connection to Wall St. in this, I presume. smh
California is saddled with the old Prop 13 fiasco and has also created an obstacle course for itself. That state still contributes more to the Federal treasury than it takes, which is more than we can say about the red states.
It's truly absurd to pretend the Democratic Congress and President Obama did not negotiate (or try to) with the Republicans. If they had simply drafted and passed the legislation they wanted, it would look very different than what we ended up with. The Republicans successfully eliminated a public option in defense of the private insurance industry. That, of course, is the most unfortunate piece of the law given up in order to TRY to work with Republicans. Slick how you assume the questions were 'cherry picked,' but that isn't the way it happened. The health care industry has been a monster for people to deal with and reforms were desperately needed. Everyone has talked about it for decades but no one got it done. I commend Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and President Obama for getting it done. It's essentially the same plan the Heritage Foundation came up with a long time ago. All the protests now are a result of politics and manipulating public opinion. Karl really created the monster that is tearing the party apart. Won the battle, lost the war.
This guy makes my point much more elegantly: http://www.thenation.com/blog/171158/conservatives-understand-gops-probl...
The difference between Romney and Obama that you're missing as far as the country club thing goes is that Obama was not born rich.
Take away the party affiliation for a bit. When a kid 30 years from now asks their parents "Can I be president?," the example that their parents are going to cite is going to be Barack Obama.
Born to a middle class family, an absentee father, moved around a lot as a kid, got into good colleges and worked hard enough to get into a great law school, went to help low income people in Chicago, got elected state senator, then national senator, wrote a best selling book, then president.
It's an inspiring story, and one that we can hold over snooty Europeans who call Americans racist but have yet to elect minorities in their government.
Obama is country club now, but he wasn't born rich like Romney was. (and before you say it, Romney gave away his dad's inheritance when he died in 1995, also known as when Mitt Romney already had 200 million dollars)
You could hear it in the way they talked. Ann Romney talked about living in a basement apartment, but the "we know what it's like to be poor" narrative fell apart when you found out that Romney supported himself by selling stock in his dad's company. It was "Rich guy born rich, works hard and gets very, very rich" In contrast, people liked Obama's middle class to rich story better.
As for the golf thing, this has been an odd charge to level. Go look up "president" and "vacation days" and find out which of our last five presidents took the most.
As for the healthcare thing, it was a Republican plan. The heritage foundation in 1992 or Romney in 2005 made it. But because the (D) was in front of the bill, suddenly it was vile and evil.
You can read a study about it here.
Had the pundits (The Economist included) insisted a little more on the disconnect with reality that characterizes the GOP before the election, rather than fixate on the horse race and the wonderfully contrived first debate performance by Romney, Republicans might actually be a little further along the road to recovery today. This one's one you.
The GOP has pissed a lot of people off and, fundamentally, lost the trust of the electorate. It will take a lot of work to get it back. Start by addressing the corruption of huge soft money (all the way into the state and local level). Get rid of Karl Rove, who profited inordinately this cycle (will anyone ever know how much?)- without much result. Punt Grover Norquist. Stop restricting voter rights and minority registration. Cut out the not-so-veiled racist attacks. Quit the silly supply-side BS. Admit austerity will harm the country, perhaps even permanently cripple the productive capacity of the economy. Stop flogging Tax cuts for 'job creators' (stop saying 'job creators'). End the absurd obstructionism. Send the rabid fringe to another party. Wait a minute... if you do all that, there's nothing left of the contemporary Republican Party. Go back to the drawing board and get better policies that work with Democracy instead of against it.
Sorry none of them are needed. The republican party can be a viable again (remember Romney almost got 62m votes) if they do the following three things -
i) distance from the religious right and the christian fanatics. Seriously you can't expect Asian Indians, Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, Iranian Americans to vote for a party whose leadership consist of people who think that the earth is 6000!!! years old. Seriously get rid of these crazy evangelicals who scare the shit out of other immigrant groups.
ii) distance and tone down illegal immigration rhetoric. Frankly this is putting off a lot of lations (the fastest growing demographic group in US, and almost around 11.2m people who are waiting in the wings to join the electorate). Also note that if the amnesty bill passes lations will make 20% of the US population and anyone with a brain should salivate at the prospect of getting 50% of this voting bloc.
iii) provide a credible libertarian alternative (fiscal conservative, socially tolerant) and just watch how lot of IT entrepreneurs, smart business people, young people, minorities rise in unison to support you. I mean please...social conservatism is so 20th century!
If the GOP leadership does that, I am sure it would send a couple of shiver down the spine of democratic party leaders. I predict the particularly worried will be the rent seeking fraction inside the democratic party (I think most TE readership knows what I am insinuating here).
The problem is that the oracles of the Republican party are not elected officials, they're pundits.
They are authors, TV hosts, radio personalities that make their money by selling their books and pandering to the fears of the most extreme partisans.
Moderation hurts their pocket book. They'll try but it'll be so reluctant. "Illegal immigration is ok, but they're still all criminals" that it won't work.
right on
If they did that then the USA would have 2 center-right parties.
Rove or Norquist are just useful idiot tools. The real source of ideology is with the source of money: Sheldon Adelson and Wall Street.
Thinly Wall-Paper over the Klan => That's Today's Republican Tea Party.
I really look forward to a Republican Party that is not saddled by religious demagoguery, insane military spending, destruction of our social safety net and underlying racism.
At that point one could have a reasonable choice between the 2 parties on how to manage our debt without spending our way into bankruptcy.
Unfortunately, I do not see the current generation of Republicans taking a more moderate approach. Any move to the center is denounced as traitorous and the standard solution bandied around the party is a further swing rightward (somewhat like Moslem Extremists blaming their failures on a lack of adherence to their religious beliefs).
I predict another couple of massive presidential electoral failures. And only when Texas starts becoming a swing state will sanity come to the Republicans, leading to a more inclusive and centrist approach.
The party will not last that long. Politics will splinter and the basis of the system to which you are accustomed will disappear. The last time that happened was in the 1850s when the Whig Party dissolved. Political chaos ensued. On a happy note the Civil War eventually ended.....
The Democrats splintered too, in 1860.
Mid-19th century American politics was rough (think economic depression in the late 1830s/early 1840s, then the polarization and splintering in the 1850s).
The Republican Base would automatically back the a party presidential nominee--even if it were Joseph Stalin, Charles Manson, or Darth Vader--if they put on expensive suit, red tie and a flag pin and talked about business, religion, and abortion.
Hopefully Republican candidates could wave, smile friendly-like, mime a dumbshow act, and MOST IMPORTANTLY not talk--too many bad things come from speaking to the media. See Sarah Palin's highly managed VP Campaign. Or Romney's trip visiting Poland.
When in doubt, use the 'laryngitis' excuse, whisper, and point to the throat.
40% of Mitt's support was Automatic, Blind Republican Support. Mitt never earned it.
7% of Mitt's support, he earned by campaigning, debating and blitzing Apocalyptic scary negative tv ads.
The 3% he needed--the undecided, indifferent, procrastinating, or nonparticipating voters--did not bother to vote for Mittens.
There was a big football game on tv. They were hungover from the weekend. Or busy beating their wives.
this seems a bit extreme
much of the republican ideal (hard work, independence from government, lower taxes, strong marriage) is by definition very good. BUT, they then micromanage each issue and fail to acknowledge any moderation on them. (All regulation is bad, Corporations are People, Gays as Sinners, Only Christian Faith has Value etc...)
It's a pity its so all or nothing in their camp - moderate republicans would be worthwhile for America
My theory is that the core conservative beliefs of accountability and responsibility and the core liberal beliefs of help those less fortunate are not mutually exclusive but rather complementary.
The problem seems to be that the GOP motivation is really just to help the corporations and wealthy pay less taxes and make money from military contracts.
So the GOP can't really run on policy and hence have to create all of these other ways of getting people in this country to vote GOP. Their solution has been Fox News and identity politics.
Complicating things is that Fox News now makes so much money with their identity politics that the GOP can no longer control Fox News. As one Republican said, 10 million viewers makes huge profits but not a winning party.
It is not only the country that the Republicans seem to dislike, it is impossible to govern effectively when it is government that you dislike. It's schizophrenic. Republicans must end their vitriolic diatribe against government and admit that right sized government is a very good thing, and that right sized does not always mean small. Hell, they love big government when it comes to defence, national security and intrusions into the nation's bedrooms! I too hope for an American conservatism that is long on common sense and short on religious and militaristic ideology.
At the end of the day, each of our representatives need to focus on a daily basis on what's best for the country, not on what's best for them. If they do that, then win or lose, they will have served God, country, and their voters.
As much as I find the Republicans to be quite backwards, I am not convinced that they need a massive makeover. I feel that we Democrats lost worse in 2004 than they did this year, and I do not remember any massive changes we made that led our victories in 2006 or 2008.
The reality is that with only two parties in America, there is going to be ebb and flow, and sadly even with no changes I fear that the electorate will flow back to them in 2016.
The problem with your statement is that the Republicans in 2004 weren't leading at the front of a wave of change, social, political, demographic, or otherwise.
This time around, the Democrats are representing a wave of change in America. Increasingly large minority voting blocs, the activating of women voters, and the intolerance for foot-in-mouth syndrome all played in the Democrats' favor.
This is the key difference. The Republicans are getting older and have remained white, whilst the Democrats embrace diversity and youth, two growing factors in the American political landscape.
but this time they might get stuck in the mud, extremists' everywhere hate reality and real people tends to hate extremists
I can explain the lack of youth vote in a nutshell: who really wants to party with a bunch of conservative white kids? The only conservatives I had any fun partying were with the libertarian types who always came to the diverse hipster/hip hop dance parties I went to. As Pinker said in the Blank Slate people are molded by their peers more than anyone else. So the party's next initiative should be to find better music, drugs and better looking people. If there is anything liberals have the inherent advantages on it is beautiful people, good drugs and good music all very important to people in college.
Of course, their actual record & performance in government isn't the problem? Because anyone interviewing someone for a job isn't really interested in what you've done in the past. Whether you have succeeded or failed in past undertakings?
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Words speak louder
Sometimes, words can speak louder than actions. This is evident in the recent uproar surrounding the Harvard University incident that lead to the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. (At press time, charges against Gates had been dropped.)
The incident can serve to edify outside of the controversial racial context. As a flawed optimist, I want to believe all factions acted with the best of intentions, like the driver who jumped in to assist the professor in opening the door, the concerned neighbor who moved to alert police, the officer who responded on behalf of public safety. These acts are all presumably meant to be of help to another, and that's something of note. While I understand part of the controversy is in the ironic theory that the race relations professor was allegedly profiled in his own community, it is not my point nor purpose to opine on that.
However, in response to a column defending the professor, a Boston officer allegedly sent a critical e-mail to a newspaper that contained racial slurs as well as demeaning language toward women.
Though an officer may spend each shift on his best behavior and work diligently for the public to protect, assist and serve its citizens, one rambling stream of unabated consciousness can negate all of those good deeds. If you're behind a badge it's not hard to draw up the argument against speaking out so brazenly, unedited. And while our constitution protects hate speech, law enforcement management personnel can't afford to have doubt — especially racially driven accusations — cast upon the officer on the witness stand for any reason.
Taking a step back to understand what unconscious biases, if any, accompanied the actions is another thing, and not totally inappropriate. To those ends, I can't speak on behalf of any of the parties involved, nor can I proffer who is culpable or for what injustice.
I'm sure the Boston officer is not alone in his opinion, but if he is indeed the author of the e-mail that's got the nation hot-blooded, he's now standing very vulnerably on his own, with his badge and character on the line.